Today, PETA, the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), the Orca Network, and other orca advocates are showing Miami Seaquarium that we won’t stop until Lolita is released from that concrete cell and returned to her ocean home.

We pointed out that Lolita’s tiny tank is smaller than the minimum size required by law, that she has no contact with any other members of her species, and that she has no protection from the sun and other weather conditions—all violations of the AWA. But the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida ruled that because Congress didn’t directly address license renewals when adopting the AWA, the USDA is allowed to rubber-stamp renewal applications. Under the ruling, the agency can renew a license even if it knows that the applicant is flagrantly violating the AWA—a legal loophole if we ever saw one.

We’ve appealed the ruling and will take our case as far as we have to.

Our coalition is also pushing the National Marine Fisheries Service to take action for Lolita. We submitted a petition asking the agency to award her the same endangered species status that it gave to the rest of the family pod from which she was stolen, and the agency has agreed that Lolita’s inclusion is warranted. Her status as an endangered species would safeguard her against harm and harassment, opening the door for her release from captivity.

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If I was a multi millionaire I would be buying Lolita and getting her the hell out of there.My parents &brother live in Oz,thousands of miles away&it hurts like hell,that I can’t see them, but I have a power of communication,I can email,write,skype and phone.What the hell is Lolita or all other captive Cetaceans supposed to do.You have tortured her and her kind for long enough, now be human and show some humanity.Let her live out her days with her family.Let her love,be loved and be free.

What you have done and are doing the poor animal is not only uncivilized and brutal, but How do you live with yourself- knowing what you are doing to her, depriving her of, not only taking her away from her family but also imprison her like that! Shame on you!

just because your allowed the unthinkable .\,doesn’t mean you have to be a part of it!! Most people are not stupid enough to believe you .What do you get out of this?(not respect ) Let them go !!doesn’t it bother you a little that you are killing them for your own greed?

Marine mammals and marine life in general should NOT be captured and placed in confined situations. This is cruel and harmful not only to the animals, but to the perceptions people form about these animals and their environments. Don’t visit these places. Tell them you oppose animal captivity!

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